The tenth meeting - hacker contest at Pwn2Own 2017 continues successfully. The products that the groups aimed at included operating systems, programs tours on the Web, new Enterprise and server-side applications. The contest is run by Trend Micro Security and lasts for three days.
Adobe Reader was also added as targets to the competition, as well as the Apache Web Server, by the Pwn2Own 2017 committee.
On the first day of Pwn2Own 2017, teams managed to successfully exploit vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader (twice), Apple Safari (twice), Microsoft Edge, and Ubuntu Desktop. Attacks against Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows failed.
On the second day, the teams managed to hit Adobe Flash (twice), Microsoft Edge (twice), Apple Safari, Mac OS X, Mozilla Firefox, and Windows successfully this time.
Other attacks against Firefox, Windows, Microsoft Edge, Mac OS X, failed, and were blocked.
The third day is expected to see three additional efforts against the following goals: Microsoft Edge (twice), and VMWare Workstation.
Pwn2Own 2017 The results so far:
In terms of operating systems, three different ones platforms successfully hacked: Windows, Mac OS X and Ubuntu Desktop.
On the side of browsers, Microsoft Edge, Firefox and Safari have been successfully compromised. An attempt against Chrome failed, and a second attack against Firefox also failed. Both Edge and Apple's Safari have been exploited many times.
On the application side now, Adobe, Flash Player and Reader products have been (unsurprisingly) successfully broken many times.
Surprising were the many times Edge breach, which Microsoft cites as the most safe browser.
It should be mentioned that other browsers based on Chromium, such as Vivaldi or Opera was not among the products the teams chose to compete.
You can see videos with the results of the first day below.
Additional information for this year's Pwn2Own contest is available on the blog TrendMicro Zero Day Initiative.
